George Eliot Quotes About Stupidity
-
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
→ -
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
→ -
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
→ -
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
→ -
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
→ -
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
→
Related Authors
-
Emily Bronte Novelist -
Virginia Woolf Writer -
Wilkie Collins Novelist -
Evelyn Waugh Writer -
Thomas Hardy Novelist -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novelist -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Charles Dickens Writer -
T. S. Eliot Playwright -
George Orwell Novelist -
George Henry Lewes Philosopher -
Elizabeth Gaskell Novelist -
William Makepeace Thackeray Novelist -
C. S. Lewis Novelist -
Jane Austen Novelist -
Henry James Writer -
Anthony Trollope Novelist -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Charlotte Bronte Novelist -
George Sand Novelist